There were 115 prisoners mistakenly released in the final year of the last Conservative Government alone.

Interesting that it only becomes a major scandal under a Labour government.

Posted by a friend.

"To be fair, Reform voters are a pretty amazing, selfless bunch, for their leader they are prepared to give up their human rights, their worker's rights, accept lower pensions, higher food and energy prices, pay more for less local services etc etc. I'm afraid I can't do that."

A week before my wedding, I woke up with facial paralysis ‘Apart from having to drink my pints through a straw, occasionally needing to wear an eyepatch and the classical guitarist nobody could hear, I wouldn’t have changed a thing about the big day.’ - Nial...

This was so witty and human. What an absolute hero. open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...

The BBC news report this morning portrays this as entirely the fault of the current government.

The right wing editorial policy is so obvious it's laughable.

Takes one to know one I guess

"We kept running into trouble with the courts..." Could that be because it was unlawful???

The people (Tories and Reform) who tell you your rights are safe if we leave the ECHR as they’ll replace them with British laws also told you our trade, borders and NHS was safe if we left the EU because they’d negotiate amazing trade deals, take control of our borders and fix the NHS…..

"It’s a framework that has repeatedly defended British families, British journalists and British soldiers, and has had wide-ranging impacts on ensuring that you’re able to live your life with an enforceable guarantee of dignity and protection."

More GB Energy staff in London than Scotland despite Aberdeen job promises Less than a fifth of GB Energy staff work in Aberdeen, The National can reveal ...

Read the full story here: www.thenational.scot/news/2548045...

Extend it to all second homes

'My Government Must Quit Twitter and Call Out Elon Musk's Far-Right Hate' Labour MP Noah Law explains why it's time for Keir Starmer to start treating the billionaire X owner as the 'foreign extremist' he now is

A growing number of Labour voices now demanding Keir Starmer start taking on Elon Musk and the far-right.

Here Labour MP Noah Law writes for Byline Times on why it's time for the Government to quit Twitter and start treating Musk as the 'foreign extremist' he now is

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/15/m...

Owner of Twitter calls for violence and what sounded like an insurrection

UK government: Let’s put some more money into ads on “X”

Three actions urgently needed

- A similar comment from Starmer.
- A condemnation of Musk
- A removal of all government depts from X

The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference

I guess Boris missed these gems:

'Honest mistake': Jeremy Hunt sorry for failure to declare luxury flats purchase Health secretary says he did not gain financially from errors about his business interest on the Companies House and MPs’ register

And then there was jeremy Cnut’s ‘genuine mistake:

www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Oh.

Is the BBC now the official mouthpiece for Reform? A study of the BBC’s Question Time has raised concerns about representation and political impartiality

Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup.

"Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."

The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

Wow!

Wish he'd have shared his knowledge with groundstaff at football clubs in the 1960s and 1970s.
The pitches were like ploughed fields.

Petition: Stand up to Trump – cancel the state visit Stop Trump Coalition

stoptrump.org.uk/petition-sta...

‘Clickbait and Chaos’ — 100 days of Reform UK Running Kent County Council Saturday marks 100 days since Reform UK won 57 of the 81 seats at Kent County Council. The Greens' local leader looks at how it's going so far

🔴 ‘Clickbait and Chaos’ — 100 days of Reform UK Running Kent County Council

Saturday marks 100 days since Reform UK won 57 of the 81 seats at Kent County Council. The Greens’ local leader looks at how it’s going so far

By the next Parliament, there will be a million eligible voters who were too young to vote in the independence referendum.

Time for Scotland to have a choice on our future.

New research reveals the best attack lines to use against Reform How to stop Farage...

🔴 New research reveals the best attack lines to use against Reform

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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

This week the Lancet published landmark research investigating the death toll of Elon Musk's dismantling of USAID.

14 million lives projected to be lost by 2030.

That's over 2.4 million dead men, women & children a year.

Thanks to one man's venality & cruelty.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Part 2

Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape…
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)

Petition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times We want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for cover...

@itvnews.bsky.social were apparently streaming Farage’s speech in Wales on TikTok today. So we can now expect Ed Davey, Adrian Ramsey, John Swinney and Rhun ap Iorwerth’s speeches being streaming too can we? This is now propaganda and has to stop. Sign petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...